The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

[Tonguez]

Maui

The great culture hero of Pacific Myth, Maui is recognised throughout the islands of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. He is a trickster, small and determined who can do what he sets his mind to. He fished land up from the sea, captured and slowed down the sun, created the dog, brought the secrets of fire to humanity, changed the position of stars - and tghat was all on a Tuesday>),

 

[DarrenGMiller]

20. CuChulainn

CuChulainn was the son of Conor MacNessa, King of Ulster. As a boy, his name was Setanta. Wielding his spear, the Gae Bolga, which supposedly never missed a target, he fought off an entire army all by himself when his army was incapacitated. Even with his death wound he fought on for days, tied to a rock. Finally, his enemies did not dare approach him until they saw buzzards land on his corpse. The "Hound of Ulster" could submit himself to a battle fury which made him terribly frightening to look at and gave him immense strength and endurance in combat. As a youth, he fought and defeated an entire troop of boys who were training to be warriors and so gained addmittance to their group. He was the greatest warrior of the Red Branch.

 

[Gomez]

21. The Doctor

The character of the Doctor was initially shrouded in mystery. All that was known about him was that he had a granddaughter, Susan, that she was born "in another time, another world", and that both of them were exiles. He also possessed a time-travelling machine called the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space), which is dimensionally transcendental (larger on the inside than on the outside), and seemingly never fully under his control. The TARDIS originally had the ability to disguise itself according to its environment, but became "stuck" in the form of a police box after landing in London in 1963, and has remained in that shape ever since (give or take the occasional attempt to fix it). Originally an irascible and highly irritable character, he was quickly shown to be a man of great intelligence and compassion, who abhorred evil in the universe and would always help others if he could.

Over time it was revealed that the Doctor was from an extraterrestrial race known as the Time Lords from the planet Gallifrey. The circumstances under which he left his planet were only vaguely alluded to, but were at least partly due to the restrictive nature of Time Lord society, their rules against interfering with the rest of the universe, and his own desire to explore time and space.

 

[Gomez]

22. Flash Gordon

The world is in a state of panic when it is discovered that a planet has fallen out of it's normal orbit and is destined to collide with Earth in a matter of days. Brawny adventurer Flash Gordon, his girlfriend Dale Arden, and renowned scientest Dr. Zarkoff blast off into space in hopes of setting the runaway planet back on course. However, they discover that it was all a ruse cooked up by the wicked Ming the Merciless, despot of the Planet Mongo, as part of his latest plot for galactic domination. Flash soon finds himself battling Ming both for the fate of the Earth and the hand of the lovely Miss Arden, though Ming's daughter, Princess Aura appears to have amorous ideas of her own for Flash.

 

[ddvmor]

<b>John Crichton</b>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/farscape/profiles/characters/page1.shtml

Shot through a wormhole to the other side of the universe, Commander John Robert Crichton Jnr has somehow managed to keep his hide, his sanity and his sense of humour intact through three years of trials.

That’s apart from the times he had hallucinations, or died, of course. But he has always kept his sense of humour, along with his two burning obsessions - wormholes and Aeryn Sun.

At the start he was merely an incompetent abroad, but being a man of intelligence (he's got a Doctorate in Theoretical Sciences) he adapted quickly. By the end of season one Moya's crew found themselves following his plans more often than not, whatever reservations they may have had about their wisdom.

Crichton is especially prone to having his head messed about with. Twice he's thought that he's back on Earth; on one trip he was the guinea-pig of a race of Ancient Ones; another visit was a Scarran-caused hallucination. Then there's the wringer that Scorpius put him through...

And on a similar vein...

<b>Aeyrn Sun</b>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/farscape/profiles/characters/page2.shtml

Sebacean by race, Aeryn was born and brought up to obey orders, in the belief that all other races were inferior. A good soldier and ace pilot, only once in her strict training was any emotion allowed to creep in, when her mother, Xhalax Sun crept into her dormitory by night to tell her that she had been born out of love.

Sucked onto Moya, Aeryn found her life ruined. By consorting with Crichton, an unknown alien, she became ‘irreversibly contaminated’ by Peacekeeper standards, and was rejected by her former colleagues. Since then she’s had to re-examine her old beliefs and loyalties, becoming instead close to her fellow renegades on Moya. She is particularly close to Pilot, drawn by his non-judgemental attitude, and by the fact that she shares his DNA after a crazed scientist experimented on her.

 

[Talgian]

I only want some tea!

As I'm about to leave for a 10-day backpacking trip, I figure I'd nominate my favorite interstellar traveler.

24. Arthur Dent (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. According to some reviewers, Dent resembles a Vonnegut hero.

Along with Ford Prefect, Dent barely escapes the Earth's destruction as it is annihilated to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur spends the next several years, still wearing his dressing gown, helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle. He rather enjoys tea, but seems to have trouble obtaining it in the far reaches of the galaxy.

Carry On,
-Talgian

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Wonder Woman #25
Created by her mother Hippolyta from clay and gifted with powers by the Olympic gods, Princess Diana was raised as an Amazon warrior on the paradise island of Themyscira. When the world was threatened by the war god Ares, Diana won the right to travel to the "man's world" as an ambassador. Using her super-strength, flight, bracelets that can deflect bullets and lasso that compels other to tell the truth, Diana defeated Ares and was dubbed Wonder Woman by the press. She soon joined the JLA to fight the evils of the world, including Circe, the Cheetah and Fury. While fighting the demon Neron, Diana died and was reborn as the goddess of truth. However, she soon regained her mortality to continue her fight for peace.

(Thanks to "Whoclix": www.http://hometown.aol.com/thefightingfury/whoclix/guide.htm)

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Superboy/ Kon-El/ Connor Kent #26
After Superman's death, his body was taken to the Cadmus Project where it was unsuccessfully cloned. But when his aura was combined with human DNA, it created the clone known as Superboy. Superboy fought crime in Metropolis, but when Superman returned, he attempted to find a life of his own in Hawaii. He learned his powers weren't exactly like Superman's. While he possesses flight, invulnerability and speed, his tactile telekinesis allows him to move and manipulate huge objects. As a clone, Superboy was eternally a teenager until the "Sins of Youth" incident when he was magically aged. On his 2nd birthday, Superman officially adopted Superboy as a cousin, naming him Kon-El. "Conner" is a founding member of Young Justice and is currently a member of the Teen Titans. He recently learned the donor of his human DNA was Lex Luthor.

Thanks to "Whoclix.com": http://hometown.aol.com/thefightingfury/whoclix/guide.htm

 

[ShadowDenizen]

FBI AGENT DALE COOPER #27
Star of the late, lamented "Twin Peaks".
http://www.glastonberrygrove.net/main_l.html

Cooper came to the small town of Twin Peaks to investigate the murder of Laura Palmer. This investaigtion quickly became more and more convoluted, as it quickly became apparent that the murders were commited by BOB, an otherwordly entity and representative of "The Black Lodge", a metaphysical bastion of evil.

To compound that, Cooper soon runs afoul of Windom Earle, his former partner, and now psychotic archnemesis.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

CAPTAIN LEE "APOLLO" ADAMA #28
(From the new "Battlestar Galactica")

An accomplished viper pilot, Captain Adama is the son of the Battlestar Galactica’s commander. The two are estranged, as Lee blames his father for the death of his younger brother, Zak.

Lee is emotional and something of a local hero, but finds himself tested when the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies. When he survives the assault and is reunited with his father, Lee must reconsider old grudges and turn his attention toward protecting the last remnants of humanity.